Green Eggs Xperience!

My school had a special reading activity this week. All the school was submerge in reading. All the students got involved, high school students work together with elementary students to present stories in their native language, Spanish. Guess what?  I said, oh well!  I want to add to that too. During my English classes I prepared special activities. 

The real experience goes like this. I have a new student that was not fully adapted to the English class. He came from another school and did not have the same learning experiences that my second graders. Since I taught them first grade too, they didn't feel that much of a change. Just that they are bigger now and have new books, another classroom, etc. 

Last week, my student came to the class so motivated! He had received a gift from his mother. It was a very funny book, and he wanted to read it in front of the class. When he showed the book to the class, everybody recognized to author!  Of course! It was Dr. Seuss. He had a book of Dr. Seuss, the author of Cat in the Hat, that they all loved it! Immediately, I saw the happiness on his face!... He read the title, Green Eggs and Ham and started to read a few pages.  Since, I knew about the special activity that was coming up, I secretly talked to him about it and we planned to read the whole story on that they. 

I planned some activities related to it, but the funniest part was to see them try the green eggs and ham.

Not only them, but faculty members too. Their faces, their reactions ...it was so funny! We had a great time. 

Thanks to all the volunteer mothers that contributed to the activity, without all of you I wouldn't be possible. 

You can tell by their faces... Did they like green eggs and ham?   Yes or No ! 

I'm not even going to try it!

Yes! Can I have more?
                            

          

Our Principal and the Spanish teacher who planned the original
activity "Submerged into Reading" in Spanish 

Administrative personnel also loved it! 

  

Fnd the rhyming pictures, cut and paste and write the words.
Of course I used a green paper as a background

Henry and Mudge

It was kind of fun having all the pieces
and gluing all together, just like a puzzle. 

I guess you  have noticed that it has been quite a time that I don't stop by to post anything. Well, it has been difficult for me to adapt to a new grade level. It hasn't been an easy task to have a last minute change,  when you have three levels: kindergarten, second grade and fifth grade. Oh,  well!  I keep going!

My second graders loved the story Henry and Mudge and we worked on the sequence of events using a very creative idea  I saw on Pinterest ( I believed) but I can't remember exactly. 

First, I made a template, traced the dog face on different beige tone construction papers, traced the floppy ears, and the snout. Then they drew and colored the eyes, and added the collar. The students cut and paste following oral instructions to create their own Mudge. 

We cut out bones to write the story events and then placed them in order. We glued them to a strip of poster board for the bulletin board. It was a huge success!  Hope you like them!

This is how it looks on the bulletin board of the hallway. 

Everybody loved the dogs! 

A drawing made by one of my students

We cut out bones to write thestory events
 It was a huge success!  Hope you like them!

smile!